Any update?

Got 'em.

Which login issue specifically? What error do you see?

This may be unrelated to surrender. There's a chance you'll get credit after your next match played. Can you let me know if you ended up getting the progress?

Updated the note slightly for increased clarity.

Spotlight

Surrender

• Added the option for a team to surrender during a match.
  • Surrender votes can be started from the Main Menu [ESC].
  • Surrender votes pass if two-thirds or more of all active players on the team agree. AFK players and disconnected players are excluded from voting.
  • The surrender option becomes available 90 seconds after a match begins.
  • If a surrender vote is unsuccessful, the team must wait 60 seconds before starting another surrender vote.

Hunters & Gameplay

General

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that allowed all hunters to slip into amplifiers' locations just before they spawned and capture them from the inside.

Rahi & Brother

Changes:

• Concussive Punch [tier 1 upgrade] & Force Punch [Right Mouse Button]: Modified the functionality of Concussive Punch. Now, rather than replacing Forc...

That's an odd one. I'll pass it along to the team!

Fix should be in the next update. :)

Agreed. We have a task on our backlog to slow them down slightly.

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You bet. :)

Heyo,

We've got a fix for this. It didn't make it in time for tomorrow's build, but should be in one soon after that.

Hey otto,

I appreciate your passion and there's no need to apologize for it. We have a shared goal.

To address a point you made, surrender isn't a "solution" for AFK players, it's an escape pod if you end up in a bad match - a final resort. We wanted to surrender for general gameplay anyhow, so it's a two birds, one stone type of situation.

We have AFK detection going in with this build as part of surrender and we're actively working on "what we do" with AFK players once we identify them. As I mentioned above, we want to remove rewards to help disincentivize the behavior to begin with. We're also looking at implementing punishments for repeat offenders and working with our customer support team to ensure that habitual afkers are taken care of.

The leaver option is the right option for reporting players for AFK'ing, but you're right, it's not super clear. I'll pass that feedback along.

As for your comments on voice chat, I answered a...

Hey ZulZah,

Good questions. We had already started work on voice comms before launch. After seeing the first wave of player feedback we immediately upped its priority at the studio and reallocated developer resources to help get it done sooner. We also made the tough decision to reduce the scope of the initial version, allowing us to get it out the door faster but with less bells and whistles. Like I mentioned in my post above, we felt it was important to get the first version out ASAP.

I wouldn't say we were surprised to see that players want voice chat. We knew it would be a hotly requested feature (which is why we were working on it), but I do think we underestimated how strong the reaction would be. We thought quick comms would be a stronger stop-gap solution, but it's pretty clear that Crucible is best experienced when you can coordinate with your team in real time. It was a miscalculation on our part and we totally own that. Not much we can do about it now oth...

That is correct. Push-to-talk will come in a later release.

It has a 60 second cooldown if the vote fails. We'll adjust the timer if we see it's becoming a problem.

Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood Grouch here with a quick update:

We’ve been keeping a close eye on discussions regarding AFK players and their impact on matches. As I’ve mentioned in Discord and a few reddit threads over the past week, we’re attacking the problem in a few different ways, and the very first of those solutions is slated to come with tomorrow’s update. In addition to updates to battle pass challenges, bug fixes, and some minor quality-of-life changes, we’ll be rolling out the Surrender feature. This feature will allow players to begin a surrender vote during a match, and if it successfully passes, the match will end. No need to stick around and keep AFK players company in unwinnable matches. Don’t worry, AFK or disconnected players don’t count in the vote. This is our first step towards handling AFK players and our design team is actively working on finalizing plans for how we want to disincentivize the behavior to begin with (like taking away rewards...

Reposting my comment from a different thread:

Managing AFK players is a top priority right now and we've got a few things in the works to address it. Very soon we'll be giving players the option to start a surrender vote so you can get out of bad matches and into your next game as quickly as possible.

We're also looking at ways to disincentivize the behavior to begin with, but we're still finalizing the design on this front so I don't have a ton of detail to share. Making sure AFK players don't earn rewards is an obvious step, as is making sure that habitually afk players are penalized for doing so.

Hey gamers,

Managing AFK players is a top priority right now and we've got a few things in the works to address it. Very soon we'll be giving players the option to start a surrender vote so you can get out of bad matches and into your next game as quickly as possible.

We're also looking at ways to disincentivize the behavior to begin with, but we're still finalizing the design on this front so I don't have a ton of detail to share. Making sure AFK players don't earn rewards is an obvious step, as is making sure that habitually afk players are penalized for doing so.

Hey all,

We'll be performing maintenance on our matchmaking system starting tonight at 5:45pm Pacific (02:45 CEST). We'll be taking down one game mode at a time, which means that you won’t be able to queue for that game mode until maintenance for that mode is complete. We’ll be starting with Harvester Command. Once Harvester Command is properly updated, we'll re-enable it and move onto Heart of the Hives. We expect that maintenance for both Harvester Command and Heart of the Hives should take less than 90 minutes. I'll be posting updates to this thread during the maintenance window.

Context:

We're implementing a change to our matchmaking system that should dramatically improve the chances that you get matchmade to regions where you have acceptable/playable latency at the cost of slightly increased queue times. We attempted to roll this change out on June 6 but we ran into some issues and had to roll back to our previous matchmaking configura...